Adaptable Mindset

Robert Overweg is a Digital Society School Ambassador for our Data Driven Transformation track. He’s an artist, gives lectures, dwells in virtual worlds and is creative director at the 160 people tech company Triple. Where he has worked with the likes of Vodafone, Heineken and Ebay. Robert has given lectures at MIT, SXSW and the European Commission. He has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and the media biennial in Seoul. It’s quite simple, Robert likes to help people and companies. According to Robert it’s even easier if people learn to help themselves by developing an adaptable mindset.

Ruben is most known for his role as head of talent development at Ajax. Where he wrote together with Johan Cruyff and Wim Jonk the manifesto for the velvet revolution. A philosophy that revolutionized the Ajax youth academy.His main focus was always to create the right learning environments for people to help them become adaptable and independent. What this revolution at Ajax brought, is widely known. According to Jongkind, Cruyff and Jonk in a football academy it should (always) be about individual talent development.

Peter Vermeiren is a mind hacker and mind explorer, ever since his youth. As an entrepreneur in digital health he brings scientific research to the market, he is also president of Compassion for Care through which he teaches about compassion and mindfulness in Healthcare. He is a teacher of meditation and breathwork to groups of enthusiasts or groups at corporates, he brings over 20 years of experience to the course.